Climate averages 1991–2020
Tangshan weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Tangshan: daytime highs average 29.5°C and nights cool to about 21.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 143 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes August a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 44 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Zhaogezhuang (24 km away). In August its highs average 29.2°C, about as warm as Tangshan, with 150 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Tangshan ranks joint 527th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 298th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Tangshan is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.5°C to 26.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 143 mm to 58 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly precipitation
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Tangshan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1.5°C-7.6°C | -7.6°C | 2.5 | 0.9 | 9.710 h |
| February | 5.3°C-5.2°C | -5.2°C | 5.3 | 1.3 | 10.711 h |
| March | 12.2°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 11 | 2.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 20.1°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 30 | 4.6 | 13.213 h |
| May | 26.4°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 49 | 5.9 | 14.314 h |
| June | 29.9°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 100 | 9.5 | 14.915 h |
| July | 30.9°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 191 | 13.5 | 14.715 h |
| August, selected | 29.5°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 143 | 12.1 | 13.714 h |
| September | 26.0°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 58 | 6.9 | 12.512 h |
| October | 19.0°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 37 | 4.9 | 11.211 h |
| November | 9.9°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 14 | 2.7 | 10.010 h |
| December | 2.9°C-5.7°C | -5.7°C | 4.2 | 1.3 | 9.49 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
August in nearby cities
- Zhaogezhuang in AugustChina · 24 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 20.6°C · 150 mm rain
- Linxi in AugustChina · 24 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 20.7°C · 150 mm rain
- Tangjiazhuang in AugustChina · 25 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 20.5°C · 150 mm rain
- Hangu in AugustChina · 55 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 22.0°C · 132 mm rain
- Tanggu in AugustChina · 83 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 22.6°C · 140 mm rain
- Xianshuigu in AugustChina · 101 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 22.6°C · 136 mm rain
- Sanhe in AugustChina · 102 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 21.0°C · 132 mm rain
- Tianjin in AugustChina · 103 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 22.2°C · 135 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Tangshan) is explained once on the Tangshan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.